Greg Barrow
Greg Barrow is the Global Media Coordinator for the United Nations World Food Programme. He is based at WFP's Rome headquarters from where he works with a team of public information officers based at the frontline of humanitarian emergencies. Before moving to Rome, Greg ran WFP's office in London. He has a background in international journalism and worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, holding posts for six years in sub-Saharan Africa, and reporting for three years from the United Nations headquarters in New York.
$130m for Ronaldo? That's a lot of school meals
After news that Manchester United soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo will move to Real Madrid for a record $130 million, World Food Programme spokesman Greg Barrow ponders what his organisation could do with a chunk of change like that... We could use it right now to feed 8.6 million hungry mouths in Ethiopia through to the end of the year. These are people whose crops have withered due to drought and who can't buy the food they want at the local markets where it still costs too much. ...
Credibility, not fame, makes a winning celebrity ambassador
His fellow athletes call him "The Gentleman", but to hundreds of thousands of hungry children around the world, he is a "saint". Paul Tergat, the world marathon record holder, who'll be lacing up his shoes for another tilt at the Flora London Marathon this weekend, is dedicating his race to the cause of hungry children. Few would place Paul Tergat in the same category as humanitarian celebrity ambassadors like David Beckham (UNICEF), or Angelina Jolie (UNHCR), but in his work for the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP), Tergat has been no less effective in highlighting the issue of child malnutrition in his role as an "Ambassador Against Hunger". ...
